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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITE AND RED, by EDWARD DE VERE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What cunning can express Last Line: These beauties make me die Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 1 | |||
What cunning can express The favour of her face ? To whom in this distress, I do appeal for grace. A thousand Cupids fly About her gentle eye. From which each throws a dart, That kindleth soft sweet fire: Within my sighing heart, Possessed by Desire. No sweeter life I try, Than in her love to die. The lily in the field, That glories in his white, For pureness now must yield, And render up his right; Heaven pictured in her face, Doth promise joy and grace. Fair Cynthia's silver light, That beats on running streams, Compares not with her white, Whose hairs are all sun-beams; So bright my Nymph doth shine, As day unto my eyne. With this there is a red, Exceeds the Damask-Rose; Which in her cheeks is spread, Whence every favour grows. In sky there is no star, But she surmounts it far. When Phoebus from the bed Of Thetis doth arise, The morning blushing red, In fair carnation wise; He shows in my Nymph's face, As Queen of every grace. This pleasant lily white, This taint of roseate red; This Cynthia's silver light, This sweet fair Dea spread; These sunbeams in mine eye, These beauties make me die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RENUNCIATION by EDWARD DE VERE THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH by EDWARD DE VERE WHEN I WAS FAIR AND YOUNG by EDWARD DE VERE SITTING ALONE UPON MY THOUGHT by EDWARD DE VERE GETHSEMANE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN QUEST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER BIRTH by THOMAS HOOD BODY AND SOUL by AWHAD AD-DIN 'ALI IBN VAHID MUHAMMAD KHAVARANI |
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